The fantastic red elevator that is Pool #61, built 1928.
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A look at the Longmont Sugar Mill in May 2014.
Taken in the last few minutes of the day. You can tell by the way that the wall is deteriorating that the windows using to have an arched top!
Scanned after being recovered from the bottom of an old wooden box for a few years. Circa 2005. The only photo I have showing the steam locomotive out front.
In this ghost town where there were brick, wooden, and dirt-brick buildings, the latter fared the best by far.
The taller of the two smokestacks on site. Note the crack around its crown.
If you’re an Astra-Zenica representative and want to use this for some magazine ad, I’ll charge you a reasonable $10,000. Email me (ha)!
From the street, it’s clear that almost every window and door had boards over it, but not every building had a roof. Silly priorities.
This door used to open at river level, but it has since been built up and sealed with a steel grate. Still, the original doors (with original paint?) stand in the same place. Once they opened to the fresh air, now they are permanently sealed in the tunnels. This is the official entrance for inspecting the mine, hence fiber optic and ladder. Shortly after the plant was demolished, this entire area was resealed and alarmed.
The last time the city sealed this door, they must have been changing out old road signs.